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Gambling and the use of credit: an individual and household level analysis
Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2010
use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271301
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On th Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics.
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000
We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262433
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Labour turnover and the spatial distribution of unemployment: A panel data analysis using employment registry data
Pastore, Francesco; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2012
from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291304
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Following Germany's Lead : Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy
di Giovanni, Julian; McCrary, Justin; von Wachter, Till - 2005
Forward-looking behavior on the part of the monetary authority leads least squares estimates to understate the true growth consequences of monetary policy interventions. We present instrumental variables estimates of the impact of interest rates on real output growth for several European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262211
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The European Phillips curve: does the NAIRU exist?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2003
This paper has two aims. First, it provides simple theoretical models that highlight two channels whereby monetary shocks have permanent real effects and the interactions between these channels. Second, it presents an empirical dynamic model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265404
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Causal effects of monetary shocks: semiparametric conditional independence tests with a multinomial propensity score
Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2008
dependent data and allowing for first-step estimation of the propensity score. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270625
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Innocent bystanders? Monetary policy and inequality in the US
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kueng, Lorenz; … - 2012
We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287628
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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczysław W. - 2005
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271758
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Regional Unemployment and its Persistence in Transition Countries
Bornhorst, Fabian; Commander, Simon - 2004
We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over time. We analyse the role various adjustment mechanisms play. While movement out of the labour force seems to be one consequence in many regions with high relative unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261837
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Wage Determination under Communism and in Transition : Evidence from Central Europe
Basu, Swati; Estrin, Saul; Svejnar, Jan - 2004
Using large firm-level data sets from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, we show that the wage behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262025